Double Click in DSL1.5

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Double Click in DSL1.5
started by: Your Fuzzy God

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Sep. 07 2005,18:20

I just installed DSL1.5 and am having a great time with it but I have to change xtdesk back to double click. This single clicking on the icons is driving me nuts. I have looked around for a config file, but to no avail.

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Sep. 08 2005,22:58

-?

----EDIT----

Oops, darn me and my slippery replies. Seriously though, if anyone knows how to change this please let me know.

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 09 2005,00:03

I'd say it'd be set in $HOME/.xtdeskrc
Example file:

table Config
#FontName: 9x15
FontName: -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1
FontColor: #d0d0d0
ShadowColor: #505050
ClickInterval: 500
IconWidth: 64
IconHeight: 64
Fixed: true
CaptionBackground: no
CaptionBorder: yes
end

Can't say from experience, but that's the only setting that seems to have anything to do with a double click

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Sep. 09 2005,00:41

Nope. Sorry.

The single-click icons were hard-coded into XTdesktop.

It's not switchable.

Once you get used to it, two-click icons seem clunky.

What's the extra click for?

-J.P.

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 09 2005,01:33

To prevent accidental click. There have been several times I'll click the edge of a window to scroll or shade and miss, clicking the desktop instead.
The single click thing isn't an issue for me at all, though...i don't use icons =o)

Posted by meestermole on Oct. 18 2005,02:23

also, for folks who like the icons - seems i cant move them around, because a click will only open the app.

Posted by newOldUser on Nov. 03 2005,00:20

With all the flexibility and config settings of Fluxbox the single-click had to be "hard coded".... Wow !?!?.

I'll admit I don't know much about XTdesktop and the window manager but that seems harsh. Shades of M$ and Uncle Bill knowing what's best for you....

I've grown use to the single-click icons but I would rather have them as double-click (maybe a topic for the Poll-of-the-month!). I go back and forth between windows systems and dsl and it's just a small annoyance that I thought would be easy to fix.

Posted by mikshaw on Nov. 03 2005,00:44

Xtdesk and fluxbox are entirely unrelated.
I've been looking through the very tiny amount of documentation, and can't find anything about this, so i assume that it is something that requires editing the xtdesk source code to change. Regardless of whether or not this can be done with config files, it's a whole world different than "shades of M$"...at least you can recompile the application to make it do what you want.

Posted by humpty on Dec. 10 2005,19:31

dsl 2.0 brings double-click icons back. It's a shame since I'm now used to single click. Anyway to switch between the two??

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 10 2005,21:35

Yes, use the icontool in DSL2.1 RC1

Posted by roberts on Dec. 11 2005,00:04

There are quite a bit of behind the scenes changes with 2.1.
With v2.0 of dsl, I wrote C++ code to make single or double click configurable via xtdeskrc, ClickInterval. I did this with my icontool in mind. But while writing the icontool and desiring a draggable via double click, I came to find out that dragging had changed considerably in xtdesk. So, in 2.1 I revisited the C++ code and wrote a function to enable dragging to be the default when ClickInterval drives double clicking. Just another reason to switch to 2.1.